It just hit me that the person doing the minutes could have been replaced with a dictaphone and you could have it typed in India at a few dollars and still have the beautiful minutes.
Yeah, maybe if it's a monologue, or at best maybe a dialogue. Ever tried to have a real multi-party meeting (let's say 5+ people) transcribed from a recording? It doesn't actually work, mostly due to poor echo cancellation, variations in volume, people interrupting each other, etc.
If you put that much more clearly (not recorded) into the ear of someone who is physically in the room and is somewhat accustomed to listening to the personalities involved, perhaps rudimentarily familiar with technical vocabulary, names of the participants, proper nouns in which the discussion commonly traffics, etc., it might stand a chance.
If you think sending a recording of a 12-person strategy session to an off-shore non-native English speaker would actually work, my guess is that you have not tried it. :-)
For sufficiently small values of "beautiful". Non-native speaker, muzzy recording, unfamiliar with your technical vocabulary and/or ongoing projects...
